Trimethylaminuria: When Your Body Insists On Smelling Like Fish
A genetic lapse in a liver enzyme can make a person permanently fragrant like a fish stall and the remedies are as decorous and awkward as a county council meeting.Read More 
How Earwax Betrays Your Body Odor
One tiny gene decides whether your earwax is tacky gossip and whether your armpits submit evidence to the room.Read More 
When a Grape Turns Your Microwave Into a Mini Thunderbox
Cut a grape properly, nudge it into a microwave and electromagnetic manners will turn fruit into tiny lightning with all the charm of a civil servant on strike.Read More 
When Muscles Vote To Become Bone
A rare genetic malady where your soft tissue stages a coup and progressively ossifies, as if your body had enrolled in the worst DIY renovation scheme imaginable.Read More 
The Great Panjandrum: When Britain Invented a Rampaging Rocket Wheel
During WWII Britain briefly decided the best way to break a concrete seawall was to tow a pair of rocket-driven wooden wheels full of explosives, and then had a very awkward afternoon on the beach.Read More 
Cadaver Synod: They Put a Pope on Trial
In 897 Rome literally dug up Pope Formosus, sat his corpse on a throne, and humiliated him in the most bureaucratic of ways.Read More 
Victorians Bought Coffins With Alarm Bells
In top hat days they built coffins with air tubes, glass windows and panic bells for anyone regretting the whole dying business.Read More 
That Tiny Fold In Your Eye Is A Third Eyelid Imposter
Nestled in the inner corner of your eye is the plica semilunaris, a vestigial third eyelid - evolution's polite, bureaucratic footnote.Read More 
They Told Me It Was A Sugar Pill And I Felt Better
Honesty, it seems, does not destroy the placebo; it dresses it up in sensible trousers and sends it to do the job.Read More 
We Take Turns: The Two Nations That Pass One Tiny Island Back And Forth
An uninhabited sliver of river is literally shared custody between France and Spain and swapped like an umbrella in a drizzle.Read More
